Erin Kissane
“…to me, this was never about the fate of a few publications: it was about whether Substack would publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material. Up to the moment I published on Tuesday, I believed that the company planned to do this. But I no longer do.”
I feel like if you lose Casey Newton, you’ve lost a whole lot of tech moderates who just haven’t realized it yet. I’ll take it.
Erin Kissane
This is really worth reading, considering that it’s coming from a very non-activist source.
“In 2023, we added more than 70,000 free subscribers. While I would love to credit that growth exclusively to our journalism and analysis, I believe we have seen firsthand how quickly and aggressively tools like these can grow a publication.
And if Substack can grow a publication like ours that quickly, it can grow other kinds of publications, too.”
Erin Kissane
“I spoke twice with Substack’s co-founders. And while they asked that those conversations be off the record, my understanding from our conversations — based on material they had shared with me in writing — was that in the future they would regard explicitly Nazi and pro-Holocaust material to be a violation of their existing policies.
But on Tuesday, when I wrote my story about the company’s decision to remove five publications, that language was missing from their statement.“
Erin Kissane
Whoa. Tipping point’s feeling real tippy.
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack
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